What Does it Mean to Be “Full Stack”?
21.5.2019
I was asked this recently by a fellow developer who was at the same web tech conference I was at. This developer had met a lot of new people who literally introduced themselves as full-stack developers sort of the way Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration would on The Office, but it was Tony Frank...
How I Use CleanMyMac X
21.5.2019
[Chris]: I'm a lifelong Mac user. Ever since our family upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Apple Macintosh Performa 636 (CD) when I was in middle school, I've never owned or worked on anything other than a Mac. I'm pretty dedicated to running a clean, fast, optimized, safe, and organized machine....
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: TTI: Time to Interactive
21.5.2019
First Meaningful Paint is close to useless because it’s an illusion. It’s a decoy to keep the user from bouncing off your website while we get them the real thing. When does the user get this r
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: TTI: Time to Interactive
21.5.2019
First Meaningful Paint is close to useless because it’s an illusion. It’s a decoy to keep the user from bouncing off your website while we get them the real thing. When does the user get this r
Animated Page Transitions in Gatsby Websites
21.5.2019
GatsbyJS is a React-based static site generator powered by GraphQL. It makes it possible for you to code and develop your site, while Gatsby transforms it into a directory with a s
AI-Backed Image Background Removal (Sponsored)
21.5.2019
I’ve worked on dozens of eCommerce sites in my career and many of them were hamstrung by the same pain points: tax collection, payment customization, and image optimization. While tax collection and payment customization were important, image optimization was always the hardest and most...
Collective #517
20.5.2019
Tornis * Folding the DOM * Gitfolio * Devchecklists * A practical guide to JavaScript Proxy
Collective #517 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
The “Inside” Problem
20.5.2019
So, you're working on a design. You need a full-width container element because the design has a background-color that goes from edge-to-edge horizontally. But the content inside doesn’t necessarily need to be edge-to-edge. You want to:
Limit the width (for large screens)
Pad the edges
Center...
Creating a Diversity Scholarship Program for Your Conference
20.5.2019
My partner and I ran a design and development conference company for eight years. During that time, we produced hundreds of hours of conferences, both on-site and online. Diversity scholarships were only becoming a typical conference offering around the time we decided to sunset our business....
Build an Ionic 4 App with User Login and Registration
20.5.2019
Ionic allows you to develop Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) and hybrid mobile apps. PWAs are web applications that run in a browser and allow for offline capabilities via service workers. They
10 React Challenges (Beginner): DOM Movement with Events
20.5.2019
Styling elements or in some instances, components in a React project is essential. Sometimes, you need to make a change in the style of an element bas
What’s New in Tailwind CSS v1
20.5.2019
Tailwind has finally released a major version of the utility based styling library